From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 10:37: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F1837B422 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ganerc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 13UYGo-0003jr-00; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:36:58 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by ganerc.mips.inka.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e7VGZeD29930 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:35:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: NIC cards Date: 31 Aug 2000 18:35:40 +0200 Message-ID: <8om1gs$t71$1@ganerc.mips.inka.de> References: <008901c012a0$bf65efd0$f5f055ce@rapidnet.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG BWS - Offwhite wrote: > Recently the hardware guy here convinced me to use the NetGear cards for a > new server and it worked just as well as a 3Com card, but the price was > far less, like $20 from $70. Apparently all NetGear cards use the Tulip > chipset which is supported by FreeBSD with the "de" device. As far as I know, Netgear just slap whatever chipset happens to be convenient on their cards. At the very least you want to provide the exact model numbers. > Any other hardware recommendations? All kinds of people recommend all kinds of cards. As you increase your sample size, recommendations start to approach the whole range of supported cards. It would be nice, if people could back up their recommendations with facts. Yeah, wishful thinking. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message